Wed Jun 24. 2009 | AM
Quote Of The Day
“Pleasure, a “state of mind”, is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience, happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. Experience of pleasure is subjective, varying among individuals and typically stimulated by eating, exercise, sexuality, music, usage of drugs. The term analogously connotes a positive mental state arising from complex perception, writing or reading, accomplishment, recognition, service, indeed through any imaginable activity.
Some persons experience pleasure from receiving pain or suffering—the medical term for this being masochism, as against sadism (enjoyment of inflicting pain or suffering). More generally, pleasure is characterised by others as reduction or absence of suffering.”
